Thursday fun

Working from home today, where home=the H20 Town library, since they have A/C, better wireless, and fewer distractions (not that books aren't a distraction, but home offers them too, as well as cats, food, and Tivo).

Stuff of note:

1. The viral marketing for season 2 of Heroes has begun.

2. The best possible casting rumor ever: Kristen Bell on Lost (as always, take Ausiello rumors with a grain of salt)!

3. How the arbitration tactics of the Pirates are responsible for Barry Bonds now owning the MLB homer record.

4. Speaking of the Pirates, according to Jack Wilson, Dave Littlefield is God. Which explains a lot about what's wrong with this world.

5. Marvin -- L33test Baby Evar!

6. The Dresden Files has been axed from the Sci-Fi network. It wasn't my cup of tea (nor are the books), but I know that lots of you liked the show.

7. ESPN dug deep and found an actual reporter lurking in one of their offices. They sent him to China, and got a pretty good story about the state of the country as it prepares for the Olympics.

8. The most amazing thing about this story is that the flowers the guy ordered actually were delivered on time and were as described. Also, the guy's a moron (but he also might well have a case).

9. Google misidentifies its own blog as spam. In a world in which Livejournal misidentifies everything under the sun as child porn, this probably shouldn't come as much a surprise.

10. You know, I'm still not sure if the ongoing Baptists for Brownback blog is a horrifying look at assholes in their natural habitat, or a brilliant satire. I'm leaning towards the former, personally.

Call signs you'd only expect in the movies.

Hawaii TV station requests call sign KUNT, doesn't realize their mistake until it's too late.

Appropriately enough, according to the article, the other call sign they got is KWTF. Appropriate since I know I'm not the only one wondering WTF they were thinking.

Ganked from Ken Jennings.

Oh Noes, it's comicbook hype!

*gasp* Could Mary Jane and Peter Parker be heading towards splitsville?

For, you know, the thousandth time?

The thing is, in a world in which death means nothing, divorce, infidelity, new sidekicks, new teams, drug addictions, economic windfalls/disasters, random character changes (hey, '90s Sue Storm, is that a cut-out number 4 on your chest?), Durlan/Skrull dopplegangers posing as the wives of heroes, and other *gasp* moments mean even less. In today's comic book world, every significant change is a dream, a hoax, and probably an imaginary story. And the hype only underscores the actual lack of meaning.